Использование психологического анализа устной речи и биографического метода в изучении личности

Abstract

The study of personality is a cross-cutting direction of research in forensic science. One of the most effective methods for studying personality is the analysis of biographical information. Oral speech is of particular importance in the production of investigative actions that have a communicative aspect, such as interrogation, confrontation and presentation for identification on the basis of voice and speech. Signs of speech are individual, which determines their forensic significance. The aim of the work is to consider the possibilities of forensic research of personality through psychological analysis of oral speech and the biographical method. The main research methods were the biographical method of studying personality and the method of analyzing oral speech. The features of a typical speech model of participants in investigative actions belonging to various psychological types were analyzed. In recent decades, a new integrative field of scientific knowledge, the forensic doctrine of speech, has been actively formed in world forensic science at the intersection of psychology and linguistics. This line of research is based on the premise that a person’s oral speech is the richest source of information about a wide variety of features that characterize the speaker. Information about these features is established on the basis of an analysis of vocabulary, syntax, accent, and many other features of oral speech. Participating in the process of trace formation, reflection of events, recorded oral speech becomes a carrier of forensically significant information necessary for the detection and disclosure of crimes. The interrelation of the personality’s biography with the elements of the structure of oral speech is determined. For example, some structural elements of oral speech (content) reflect individual symbols and personally significant information in speech, which is closely related to the psychological data and social status of the individual (education and professional activity). The authors note a tendency in the analysis of speech behavior – the use of a typological approach, which makes it possible to individualize tactics in the production of investigative actions. The characteristics of a typical speech model of ten psychological types of participants in investigative actions are considered. The integration of psychological research methods into forensics also gives rise to a number of problems, such as the choice of the optimal personality typology, the need to develop a unified methodology for the psychological analysis of oral speech and the availability of specialists capable of analyzing speech on the basis of a special technical base.